I’ve been contemplating purchasing Toon Boom Studio, and I was just about to download the trial version when I saw the “showcase” button and clicked, hoping to see stuff that would dash all my hopes of becoming an animator. You know, inspiring stuff.
However, aside from Timmy’s Easter, which seems to be vector-animated anyway, nothing in the “showcase” was really that good (not that I could find, anyway). It was the kind of stuff I wouldn’t want people to know I made, mostly.
I know Toon Boom (Digital Pro, I suppose, not Studio) has been used to animate many feature-length films, so if that’s all they have in their gallery, that’s kind of sad.
Traditional animation is an art that should never have been abandoned as much as it has these days. Even Walt Disney, who practically pioneered the form, made an official statement a while ago that it would no longer produce traditionally animated films.
Edit: This is really funny. I took a look at the Pencil forum, and the few animations posted there are better than anything in the Toon Boom Studio showcase. That should really embarrass those guys into coming up with better gallery images.
Perhaps any Studio Ghibli movie or Studio 4degc for TekkonKinkreet, look at the making of’s, hand drawn animation and hand painted matte’s + a mix of CG pretty much unrecognisible (well for a layman like myself that is)
The thing is exactly that Toon Boom Digital pro is used mostly if not only by pro animaton companies, and those guys aren’t the best to share work for products showcase. For instance “The Simpsons Movie” was made using Toon Boom products.
You can download (or at least some months ago you could) Toon Boom Digital Pro for free with all the comercial features( some restrictions like output resolution, etc) for learning porpuses.
But heres the thing, if you want to and If you think enough you can make a old fachion 2D, Disney like movie, using Blender
Yeah, but what I’m saying is I would expect there to be way more traditional animation enthusiasts out there producing quality work. Just look at this forum; people produce near-Pixar quality work using free software just because they love doing it. I would think there’d be at least as many people trying to produce old-Disney-like traditional animation. If real traditional animation today wasn’t so sparse, I think there would be.
You can download (or at least some months ago you could) Toon Boom Digital Pro for free with all the comercial features( some restrictions like output resolution, etc) for learning porpuses.
Yes, they have a PLE version of Digital Pro. It’s awesome that companies are doing that with such high-end software. Even if you can’t render anything of decent quality, you can learn the software without shelling out a buttload cash. I noticed Maya has one now, too (they used to only have a trial version).
But heres the thing, if you want to and If you think enough you can make a old fachion 2D, Disney like movie, using Blender
Yeah, right. :eyebrowlift2: Wouldn’t want to anyway (well, not as a stand-in for 2d animation anyway).
